The Week in Entertainment

Film: Indiana Jones & The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. What a lot of fun that was! Shia LaBeouf was good, it was great to see Karen Allen again, and the action never stopped. Nor did the laughs. And Harrison Ford is in fine form - that Indy gleam in his eye - and Spielberg can sure direct an action sequence. Shia and the monkeys - great stuff. I don't even mind the McGuffin - it fits for a late 50s story, in a weird way.

DVD: The second season of Lewis - as good as the first. (And maybe that's why British programs have such short seasons: to keep up the excellence.)

TV: Nova - "Lord of the Ants" about EO Wilson. The man is crazy. I've had fire ants bite me - never again! But to see the world "as a universe of immense diversity": how wonderful. Big Trouble in Little China - I cannot resist this movie. I adore it. The Last Mimzy - enjoyable enough, though the framing device removed the suspense.

Read: Since I left the Putin book at the office (put it on the desk to get a quote for a course and forgot it) so to have something to read during the commute I started (and went ahead and finished) Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin - what an excellent overview of the meeting of fossils and DNA, of evo-devo and paleontology. "Old Man Crow", a lovely Charles de Lint short.